Orville Wayne Roediger

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel in Borger with the Rev. Terry Roediger, Mr. Roediger's son, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Pampa.

Mr. Roediger died Friday, June 16, peacefully at home with his family by his side. Mr. Roediger was born Nov. 4, 1922, in Ransom, Kan., to Robert and Eletha Roediger. His family moved to Phillips in 1933, where he lived until moving to Fritch in 1986.

He graduated from Phillips High School in 1942. He married his high school sweetheart, Garnetta Cornelius, on May 28, 1942, in Phillips. They were happily married for 64 years.

He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was an original member of the Hutchinson County Pilots Association. At 18, he was one of the youngest pilots in Hutchinson County. He attended Frank Phillips College and served as an auxiliary deputy sheriff under Sheriff Hugh Anderson. He retired from Phillips Petroleum Co. as a boilermaker after 43 years of service.

He loved living the retired life with his wife. He enjoyed fixing things and enjoyed his flying years.

The most important wish that he had was that his son Dennis Roediger's urn containing his ashes would be interred with him.

He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant brother, Ralph Vernon Roediger; a son, Dennis Wayne Roediger; and an infant grandson, Jeffrey Roediger.

Survivors include his wife; a son, the Rev. Terry Roediger and wife Donna of Mansfield; a daughter, Kimberly Passantino and husband Tom of Vancouver, Wash; a sister, Wilma Smith and husband Jack of Borger; a brother-in-law, Buddy Cornelius and wife Sonja of Guymon, Okla.; four grandchildren, Teri Wilborn and husband Craig of Arlington, Kadee Allen and husband Louis of Burleson, Chris Brown of Sacramento, Calif., and Tommy Passantino of Vancouver; three great-grandchildren, Ashlyn Wilborn and Mackenzie and Trey Allen; and several nieces and nephews.

The family suggests memorials be to Texas Senior Health Care or Odyssey Health Care.